Utah COVID-19 Briefing: Feb. 18, 2022

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SALT LAKE CITY (Feb. 18, 2022) — Click here to watch this week’s COVID-19 briefing. 

ASL interpretation is provided. Traducción al español en EmergenciasUtah.

Some information from this briefing includes:

  • By March 31st our response will transition to what we are calling a “Steady State.” Our Department of Health will spend the next six weeks refining plans they have already started to develop to help get us there.
  • Some elements of the response, like testing and treatments, will transition to being the responsibility of our highly capable health care systems. This will allow our public health system to refocus on the elements of the response that a public health system would normally look after: disease surveillance, data collection and reporting, vaccinations, and public awareness.
  • This is not the “end” of the pandemic. This does not mean COVID-19 is going away. Or, that as a state, we are packing up and heading home. We will continue to see cases, and outbreaks, and hospitalizations, and, unfortunately, deaths. But it does mean that we are adapting how we respond to these things.

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